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Journal of Inequalities and Applications
Volume 2010, Article ID 895121, 10 pages
doi:10.1155/2010/895121
Research Article
Global Existence and Asymptotic Behavior of
Solutions for Some Nonlinear Hyperbolic Equation
Yaojun Ye
Department of Mathematics and Information Science, Zhejiang University of Science and Technology,
Hangzhou 310023, China
Correspondence should be addressed to Yaojun Ye,
Received 14 December 2009; Accepted 18 March 2010
Academic Editor: Shusen Ding
Copyright q 2010 Yaojun Ye. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative
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any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
The initial boundary value problem for a class of hyperbolic equation with nonlinear dissipative
term u
tt
−
n
i1
∂/∂x
i
|∂u/∂x
i
|
p−2
∂u/∂x
i
∂u
∂x
i
p−2
∂u
∂x
i
a
|
u
t
|
q−2
u
t
b
|
u
|
r−2
u, x ∈ Ω,t>0 1.1
with initial conditions
u
p
−
n
i1
∂/∂x
i
|∂/∂x
i
|
p−2
∂/∂x
i
is a divergence operator degenerate
Laplace operator with p>2, which is called a p-Laplace operator.
Equations of type 1.1 are used to describe longitudinal motion in viscoelasticity
mechanics and can also be seen as field equations governing the longitudinal motion of a
viscoelastic configuration obeying the nonlinear Voight model 1–4.
For b 0, it is well known that the damping term assures global existence and decay
of the solution energy for arbitrary initial data 4–6. For a 0, the source term causes finite
time blow-up of solutions with negative initial energy if r>p7.
The interaction between the damping and the source terms was first considered
by Levine 8, 9 in the case p q 2. He showed that solutions with negative initial
energy blow up in finite time. Georgiev and Todorova 10 extended Levine’s result to
the nonlinear damping case q>2. In their work, the authors considered 1.1–1.3 with
p 2 and introduced a method different from the one known as the concavity method.
They determined suitable relations between q and r, for which there is global existence or
alternatively finite time blow-up. Precisely, they showed that solutions with negative energy
continue to exist globally in time t if q ≥ r and blow up in finite time if q<rand the initial
energy is sufficiently negative. Vitillaro 11 extended these results to situations where the
i
. By mean of the
Galerkin method and compactness criteria and a difference inequality introduced by Nakao
18, the author 19, 20 has proved the existence and decay estimate of global solutions for
the problem 1.1–1.3 with inhomogeneous term fx, t and p ≥ r.
In this paper we are going to investigate the global existence for the problem 1.1–
1.3 by applying the potential well theory introduced by Sattinger 21, and we show the
asymptotic behavior of global solutions through the use of the lemma of Komornik 22.
We adopt the usual notation and convention. Let W
k,p
Ω denote the Sobolev space
with the norm u
W
k,p
Ω
|α|≤k
D
α
u
p
L
p
Ω
1/p
,andletW
k,p
0
u
∇u
p
p
− b
u
r
r
,J
u
1
p
∇u
p
p
−
b
r
E
t
1
2
u
t
2
1
p
∇u
p
p
−
b
r
u
r
r
1
W
1,p
0
Ω
holds with a
constant C>0 depending on Ω,p, and r, provided that i 2 ≤ r<∞ if 2 ≤ n ≤ p; ii 2 ≤ r ≤
np/n − p, 2 <p<n.
Lemma 2.2 see 22. Let yt : R
→ R
be a nonincreasing function and assume that there are
two constants β ≥ 1 and A>0 such that
∞
s
y
t
β1/2
dt ≤ Ay
s
, 0 ≤ s<∞, 2.4
then yt ≤ Cy01 t
−2/β−1
, for all t ≥ 0,ifβ>1, and yt ≤ Cy0e
−ωt
t
−a
u
t
t
q
q
≤ 0.
2.6
Therefore, Et is a nonincreasing function on t.
We need the following local existence result, which is known as a standard one see
13–15.
Theorem 2.4. Suppose that 2 <p<r<np/n − p, n>pand 2 <p<r<∞, n ≤ p.If
u
0
∈ W
1,p
0
Ω, u
1
∈ L
2
Ω, then there exists T>0 such that the problem 1.1–1.3 has a unique
local solution ut in the class
0,T
; L
q
Ω
. 2.7
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Lemma 2.5. Assume that the hypotheses in Theorem 2.4 hold, then
r − p
rp
∇u
p
p
≤ J
u
,
2.8
for u ∈ H.
Proof. By the definition of Ku and Ju, we have the following identity:
rJ
u
K
and u
1
∈ L
2
Ω such that
θ bC
r
rp
r − p
E
0
r−p/p
< 1,
2.11
then ut ∈ H, for each t ∈ 0,T.
Proof. Since u
0
∈ H,soKu
0
> 0. Then there exists t
m
≤ T such that Kut ≥ 0 for all
t ∈ 0,t
m
. Thus, we get from 2.3 and 2.8 that
r − p
2.13
Next, we easily arrive at from Lemma 2.1, 2.11,and2.13 that
b
u
r
r
≤ bC
r
∇u
r
p
bC
r
∇u
r−p
p
∇u
p
p
≤ bC
r
.
2.14
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Hence
∇u
p
p
− b
u
r
r
> 0, ∀t ∈
0,t
m
,
2.15
which implies that ut ∈ H, for all t ∈ 0,t
m
.Bynotingthat
bC
r
rp
r − p
1
∈ L
2
Ω satisfy 2.11, then the solution
ut is a global solution of the problem 1.1–1.3.
Proof. It suffices to show that u
t
2
∇u
p
p
is bounded independently of t.
Under the hypotheses in Theorem 2.7,wegetfromLemma 2.6 that ut ∈ H on
0,T. So the formula 2.8 in Lemma 2.5 holds on 0,T. Therefore, we have from 2.8 and
Lemma 2.3 that
1
2
u
t
2
r − p
rp
∇u
p
∇u
p
p
≤ max
2,
rp
r − p
E
0
< ∞.
2.18
The above inequality and the continuation principle lead to the global existence of the
solution, that is, T ∞. Thus, the solution ut is a global solution of the problem 1.1–
1.3.
The following theorem shows the asymptotic behavior of global solutions of problem
1.1–1.3.
Theorem 2.8. If the hypotheses in Theorem 2.7 are valid, and 2 <q<np/n − p, n>pand
2 <q<∞, n ≤ p, then the global solutions of problem 1.1–1.3 have the following asymptotic
behavior:
lim
t → ∞
u
t
u
tt
Δ
p
u a
|
u
t
|
q−2
u
t
− bu
|
u
|
r−2
dx dt, 2.20
where 0 ≤ S<T<∞.
Since
T
S
Ω
E
t
q−2/2
|
u
t
|
2
dx dt
−
q − 2
2
T
S
Ω
E
t
q−4/2
E
t
uu
t
dx dt,
2.21
so, substituting the formula 2.21 into the right-hand side of 2.20,wegetthat
|
r
dx dt
−
T
S
Ω
E
t
q−2/2
2
|
u
t
|
2
− a
|
u
t
|
q−2
u
t
q−2/2
uu
t
dx
T
S
b
2
r
− 1
T
S
E
t
q−2/2
u
r
r
dt
q−2/2
u
r
r
dt ≤ θ
r − 2
r
T
S
E
t
q−2/2
∇u
p
p
dt
≤
p
r − 2
r − p
r − p
T
S
E
t
q/2
dt. 2.24
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It follows from 2.22, 2.23,and2.24 that
4r − p
r − 2
θ r 2
r − p
T
S
E
t
q/2
dt
≤
2
T
S
Ω
E
t
q−4/2
E
t
uu
t
dx dt −
Ω
E
t
q−2/2
uu
t
dx
t
uu
t
dx dt
≤
q − 2
2
T
S
E
t
q−4/2
E
t
rp
r − p
, 1
T
S
E
t
q−2/2
E
t
dt
−
q − 2
q
max
C
p
rp
r − p
, 1
E
q−2/2
uu
t
dx
T
S
≤ max
C
p
rp
r − p
, 1
E
t
q/2
S
Ω
E
t
q−2/2
2
|
u
t
|
2
− a
|
u
t
|
q−2
u
t
u
dx dt ME
S
q/2
E
t
q/2
M
ε
1
|
u
t
|
q
dx dt
≤ Mε
1
T
S
E
t
q/2
dt M
ε
E
T
− E
S
≤ Mε
1
T
S
E
t
q/2
dt ME
S
.
2.29
From Young inequality, Lemmas 2.1 and 2.3,and2.17, We receive that
− a
T
S
q
M
ε
2
u
t
q
q
dt
≤ aC
q
ε
2
E
0
q−2/2
T
S
∇u
q
rp
r − p
q/p
T
S
E
t
q/2
dt M
ε
2
E
S
q/2
.
2.30
Choosing small enough ε
1
and ε
2
, such that
E
t
q/2
dt ≤ ME
S
ME
S
q/2
≤ M
1 E
0
q−2/2
E
S
. 2.32
Therefore, we have from Lemma 2.2 that
E
t
200711013, The Science and Research Project of Zhejiang Province Education Commission
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